Amid Political Turmoil, the World’s Top Museums Look at Protest Art
Schneemann’s Up to and Including Her Limits.
Photographer: Jonathan Muzika, Courtesy of Carolee Schneeman and PPOW Gallery, N.Y. Digital Image © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
When Jimmie Durham decorated a baby buffalo skull with feathers and paint in 1982 and installed it in a small art gallery in Manhattan’s East Village, he intended for the skull, along with the rest of his installation, to be destroyed when the show was over. Instead it will appear this November, tastefully lit and accompanied by wall text, in the hushed galleries of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art.
The show, Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World (first installed in the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and running at the Whitney from Nov. 3 to Jan. 28), offers a selection of ephemera, found art, and videos, much of which is associated with Durham’s strident advocacy for American Indian rights.